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Your Kids Are Gifted. Should You Tell Them?
What do you do when your little darlings think fast, feel deeply, and ask questions you can’t answer. What do you do when they correct your mistakes, ruminate about the meaning of infinity, and prefer Beethoven to baseball? Do you tell them that they’re gifted? Do they need to know why the other four year olds ignore their lectures on the life cycle of the…
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Most Popular Posts of 2015
Here are the top six posts of 2015. Thank you so much for reading, commenting, sharing and living your sensitive, intelligent, emotional, curious, compassionate rainforest-y life! Join me, dear bloggEEs, for more treks into the depths in 2016. Let us know, in the comments, how you’re doing and what you’d like to see next year. Imagine…
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Overexcitabilities — Can’t Live With Them, Can’t Live Without Them
Overexcitabilities. Those pesky little traits that make your friends roll their eyes, relatives recommend medication and neighbors head home early. Maybe you talk fast and often about your passion for stackable brain specimen coasters. Maybe you cry over the Facebook video of the adorable four year old telling his mother why he must become a vegetarian. Maybe you…
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Single? Lonely? Gifted? Listen Up.
If you’re single and feeling lonely, listen up. Because I know what you’re thinking. You’ve tried. Tinder. Plenty of Fish. Match. E-Harmony. The Church Barbecue. Nothing works. You must be too much. Too much for love. After all, you overwhelm your friends with your intensity. You’re too sensitive to shoot-’em-up-movies, to screeching leaf blowers, to wafting…
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If I’m So Smart, Why Am I So Dumb? Part Two
The following are my top ten reasons why you may feel “dumb,” not so smart and certainly not gifted : #10. You’re highly sensitive, emotional, idealistic and lonely. Gifted people are cynical, logical and objective and prefer being alone to think. #9. You have multiple interests and can’t decide on one career path. Gifted people pick one thing,…
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When You Want to Send the Gift(edness) Back
I’m not complaining. You. A super-smart person. Have a lot going for you. A lot. You were born with a brain that is wired for extra-intelligence. It was a gift. You didn’t earn it. But there it is. I’m grateful. You’re grateful. And you’re not complaining when you explain that there are times when you…
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Advice for your Sensitive Soul
You will never be normal. And this is good. You have too much compassion. Too much awareness. Too much curiosity. Too much emotion. Too much thinking. Too much intelligence. You have an uncontrollable thirst to know. You live with ethical standards that seem excessive to others. You strive for a perfection that only Nature understands. Your heart breaks when you…
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“…A Vast and Technicoloured Emotional Spectrum…”
“I have tried being normal. To tone myself down, I have to crush all the things that also give me energy, drive, and inspiration. I’ve tried living there, it’s a sort of death. I frequently wander about with a mute button on, so as to be more bearable.” Nimue Brown “The things that matter…
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I Can’t Show How Smart I Am To Anyone, Not Even To Myself
You hide. You stay small. You “dumb down.” Why? Because– (Pick one or more.) 1. It’s not cool to be too smart. 2. Other people will feel bad about themselves. 3. I’ll be lonely. 4. I’ll be ridiculed. 5. I’ll take up too much space. 6. I’ll overshadow others. 7. I’ll become egocentric, arrogant and self-absorbed.…
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